Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems

Summary: Positions OO language concepts as a foundation for post-relational data models but highlights lack of a standard OODB model and persistent criticisms hindering adoption. Provides historical perspective, a working OODB definition, and a concise agenda of research and implementation challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 883
Venue: PODS
Year: 1990
Pagerank: 5.8714103e-05
Overall Rank: 6,464 | 55.66%
DOI: 10.1145/298514.298537

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Won Kim (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kim_pods90,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '90},
        title = {{Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/298514.298537},
        doi = {10.1145/298514.298537},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Kim, Won},
        year = {1990}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,273	Semantic Queries with Pictures: The VIMSYS Model	1991	VLDB	6.2888624e-05
6,298	Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations	1994	VLDB	5.9227722e-05
8,562	New Data Models and Languages - the Challenge	1992	PODS	5.4119882e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 27 of 27 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0024089429
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.0007727299
15	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00061144858
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
45	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00045531113
63	An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00038782376
99	The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00034506601
119	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.0003183602
147	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00029474235
283	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00022377907
355	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00020351749
599	Semantics and Implementation of Schema Evolution in Object-Oriented Databases	1987	SIGMOD	0.00015910762
622	LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language	1986	VLDB	0.00015686753
684	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014990873
740	O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014482241
877	F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme	1989	SIGMOD	0.00013464822
1,118	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00012104924
1,191	Version Modeling Concepts for Computer-Aided Design Databases	1986	SIGMOD	0.00011741398
1,228	A Model of Queries for Object-Oriented Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011579246
1,377	A Data Management Extension Architecture	1987	SIGMOD	0.00010972063
1,408	A Unifying Framework for Version Control in a CAD Environment	1986	VLDB	0.00010855344
1,821	Composite Objects Revisted	1989	SIGMOD	9.6781145e-05
2,508	Benchmarking Simple Database Operations	1987	SIGMOD	8.4882167e-05
3,736	Versions of Schema for Object-Oriented Databases	1988	VLDB	7.1619034e-05
5,238	Multimedia Information Management in an Object-Oriented Database System	1987	VLDB	6.3029628e-05
5,259	An Implementation for Nested Relational Databases	1988	VLDB	6.2965521e-05
7,343	Transaction Management In An Object-Oriented Database System	1988	SIGMOD	5.6383799e-05

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